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I think this is pretty cool. According to the National Arts Center for Research, Rochester ranks 20th among large cities.
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Rochester ranked as the 20th most arts vibrant large city in America, according to the National Center for Arts Research’s recently released Arts Vibrancy Index. This assessment of arts vibrancy used multiple measures of supply, demand and public support for arts and culture on a per capita basis, and confirms what those of us living in Rochester have known all along – that we live in a creative hotbed. Cited among the contributors to Rochester’s ranking are “first-class venues such as Geva Theatre Center.” According to the Theatre Communications Group (TCG) Fiscal Survey 2013, Geva is the most attended non-profit theatre in the Northeast United States outside of Manhattan.
That's also awesome that Geva is the most attended non-profit theatre in the NE outside of Manhattan.
Hopefully this doesn't mean city officials will more aggressively pursue the god awful idea of a performing arts center like they were in the past.
I'd be shocked if a performing arts center didn't end up on parcel 5 at Midtown. I didn't like the idea at first either, but I'm kind of coming around to it as long as both the new place and the Auditorium don't end up poaching shows off each other.
I'll come around to it after the rest of the problems the city faces are dealt with, unless this is something that would be 100% private funded and with no tax subsidies whatsoever, but we know that would never happen anyways.
As Richard Florida always calls these people, the creative types. He stresses how the more you have a vibrant artistic community, the better your chances to have a thriving high tech sector. Based on the # of patents locally, I think he's right.
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